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Reality Check
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it. —Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, on “Real Time With Bill Maher”, Feb. 4, 2011 Reality is that which, when you stop...
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Stealth Creationism at the Geology Meetings
Order the book from Skeptic.com The Geological Society of America (GSA) is one of the largest organizations of geologists in the world (over 24,000 members). It holds not only an annual meeting every...
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Sneaking Pseudoscience into Legitimate Science Meetings
Order the book from Skeptic.com In my October 26 post, I discussed the efforts of creationists to run “stealth” field trips at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver in...
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Hell ride to a supervolcano
Order the book from Amazon.com One of the great joys of being a geologist is that every summer I try to escape the heat waves of July and August by doing field research in some place with a nicer...
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Cracking earth and crackpot ideas
Most educated people in modern society have no difficulty accepting the idea that the earth is roughly spherical, or that the sun is the center of the solar system and the earth moves around it....
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A surreal journey among the creationists
Order the book from Skeptic.com Last winter I received an email from a producer of a BBC reality series, “Conspiracy Road Trip.” The premise of the series is that the host (Andrew Maxwell, a British...
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Written in your genes—and atoms
A review of The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, by Neil Shubin (Pantheon, New York, 2013). Popularizing science, and writing science trade books for...
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People are mourning the victims of the Oso, Washington, landslide, but was it totally unexpected? Did it really come without warning?
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A review of the upcoming three-part series on PBS, "Your Inner Fish" with Neil Shubin
View ArticleThe woman who saw beneath oceans
The famous map of the ocean floor that we all grew up with was almost entirely drawn by one person, Marie Tharp. She mapped over 70% of earth's surface almost by herself, yet few people know her name....
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